[Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening
Pronoein
pronoein at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 22:41:46 UTC 2011
Le 01/03/2011 18:31, Michael Snow a écrit :
> On 3/1/2011 12:57 PM, Pronoein wrote:
>> If there is such a minority of ethical concerns, it could be one of the
>> reasons that volunteers are leaving the boat.
> Based on the one survey of former contributors that has been conducted
> (see
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Former_Contributors_Survey_Results),
> this doesn't figure highly enough to demonstrate the kind of significant
> minority you suggest. Rather, the concerns of those surveyed are
> overwhelmingly about how rulebound, overly complex, and unfriendly their
> work in the community seemed to be. Perhaps somebody would care to go
> back through the full survey responses and see if they can identify
> comments that fit the "I was being exploited" line you're pushing here.
> I would prefer to hope that as the foundation's community department
> works to develop the fundraising and messaging, it will also create and
> improve upon initiatives that lead to a better community environment, as
> that seems to be the dominant problem.
Thank you for your answer Michael. However:
«Note that this survey was aimed at less experienced editors. »
I remember for example that many administrators quit during the sexual
content controversy because of the decision of Jimbo. Those people were
driven by a vision of a certain type of governance and felt betrayed or
disappointed.
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